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Oklahoma's Kyler Murray Needs To Decide Which Way He'd Like To Make Millions Of Dollars

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Oklahoma's Heisman-winning quarterback and Oakland A's prospect, Kyler Murray has to decide if he wants to go play baseball or declare himself eligible for the NFL Draft. via GIPHY I know there's never a sure thing in the world of sports and their are so many stories of guys being flops or losing all their money. But how many of them were highly sought-after two sport athletes? Wow, update mid-blog: As I'm typing this, he declared his intent to enter the NFL Draft. Why not? Force the A's to buy you into baseball. What an amazing situation to be in where you have entire sports trying to buy you. At the end of my illustrious hockey career, I had the sport of hockey actively trying to pawn me off on it's red-headed step-brother, lacrosse. Either way, congrats to him.

The Phillie Phanatic Is Quite The Shot With The Ol' Hot Dog Cannon

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   PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa. (WPVI) --   Kathy McVay of Plymouth Meeting learned the hard way that a hot dog can hurt.    If your capable of not reading past that first sentence, you're more powerful than I.   Believe it or not, it gets better! "It just came out of nowhere. And hard," she said   On Monday night, McVay was at the Phillies-Cardinals game at Citizens Bank Park. She was seated behind home plate when the Phanatic rolled out onto the field with his hot dog launcher.   The big green mascot started firing away into the stands. The Phanatic shoots real hot dogs, but they are wrapped in duct tape.   One headed straight for Kathy McVay's head. BOOM! Headshot! And was it ever. Ms. McVay received quite the shiner. She is lucky that she didn't get Maude Flanders-ed: Maude was shot by t-shirts, but ironically was returning with an order of hot dogs. Just no foot-longs; they make Ned uncomfortable. Who would ha...